Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.
Because God created the Natural – invented it out of His love and artistry – it demands our reverence.
We long for more and God’s promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist.
If you haven’t met Satan recently, you are probably going his way!
The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.
There seems no plan because it is all plan.
It’s like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
The only people who hate escapism are jailers.